There has been a whole thread on this issue before: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5456273&postcount=20 I seriously admire...
Knowing that teams that look at a deficit do perform better my initial thoughts say that the second home team is more often looking at a deficit...
tachyon1, Out of curiosity in absolute nos. how many times did the 1st home team go through and how many times the 2nd home team (including...
I have been paying quite some attention to this lately and have yet to find any significance in this. What I am referring to is team name depedent...
I am not saying that this is not important! It is and I do have opinions on it, though not looking at it and just considering the predicted goal...
Re: ******** the Poisson Sorry, the rating part is the rating difference between two teams. You may also call it the handicap. The predicted...
******** the Poisson The formula that I use to predict the win% is: chance = ℮^(A*rating+B)/(1+℮^(A*rating+B)) Good Luck!
One team I strongly disagree on: HOLLAND They were absolutely hopeless on their last three encounters! At home against: Macedonia 0-0 Italy...
scu84, Sorry to say it, but you will not find anything! What you are suggesting is to play attacking football while your fellow coach is more...
I have done the same kind of test with the EPL and come to almost exactly the same conclusion. My main purpose was to find out how much weaker a...
Something else I kind of discovered, but I must say I did not properly invetigate it, is that it is very good for players to have a rest from time...
Best thread I have read in years! I made a player rating model a bit based on an elo-ranking system. Basically every team has a team...